policystudents' views and experiencesKenyaThis paper explores the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) policy context and the realities facing in-school young people in Kenya. It is based on a review of the health and education sector policy documents as well as data from self-administered ...
Using data from nearly 600 adolescents aged 12–19 in combination with data collected from 33 primary schools that the adolescents attended, this report explores whether certain aspects of the school environment affect the initiation of premarital sex among girls and boys in three districts of Kenya...
In Kenya, nutrition education is included in the school curriculum as recommended in the year 2009 national school health policy. Nevertheless, policy advocacy and communication strategies on nutrition are relatively weak, and there is insufficient focus on operational research on nutrition. In addition...
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Author: Laureen Mukami Nyamu Student, Kabarak University School of Law in Nakuru, Kenya Human rights are inherent to all human beings regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or other status [1] moreover they are universal but the universality of human rights is not enjoyed by sexual...
In addition to the operational experience in implementing SBD programmes in Kenya, there exists a clear policy context, with school health policy and guidelines developed jointly by the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation and the Ministry of Education [7, 8]. In 2011, the national government...
KNTBS Director Margaret Oduor, noted that high school children aged between 16 and 18 years contribute 60 percent of the blood donated in Kenya and challenged the adult donors to take up the cause to enable the service to address the current shortage. ...
According to a World Bank report, Kenya’s Human Capital Index is among the highest in Africa at 0.54, as of 2022. This means that a Kenyan child has a 54% chance of attaining their formal education potential (14 years of high-quality school by age 18), facilitated by good health and...
Applications are now open for the2024HiiL Innovation Hub East Africa Justice Entrepreneurship School.TheJustice Entrepreneurship School is HiiL’s flagship incubation programme that supports early-stage entrepreneurs that are preventing or resolving pressing justice needs in their communities. The programme ...
(FGD, out-of-school girls). One girl said in an interview that she had her first sexual encounter at the age of fourteen, after her older sister described to her what the men were doing to her when she went to serve them (namely having sex for money). The younger girl got pregnant...